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Phil keating . Give us an update. Governor, the sometimes struggling and sometimes notorious florida election workers actually made significant and really almost complete prospect on my progress to date in dealing with the remaining t outstanding ballots that were so questionable. The hand count, as it is cold out here, but here in Palm Beach County, and most of e state, they are completely donet completely close to it. Inside the warehouse in Palm Beach County, for all the county has been goingg on, no oe inside, it is locked up for the night. Now across the state this morning and afternoon, they went through ballots, which had been kicked out by the machines, determining voter intent, if at all possible. In broward, the vast majority were under bold ballots, where the senate race had been left blank. Democrats are blaming that on ballot design. As for the senate race itself, the original vote count and recount numbers are pretty much close to the same. Republican governor rick scott leading Democrat Bill nelson by almost 13,000 votes. Floridasox, attorney general faulted the Nelson Campaign for its lawsuit, suggesting nelson just needs to concede and end it all. We have to have deadlines. The way to prevent fraud is to have signature verification as we do in florida. What if we didnt . You could go to theor polls and somebody could sign mickey mouse and that would count as a vote. Thats a joke on the integrity of our system. And thats the way they wouldd have our system work, and it just doesnt. Almost no public statements at all from senator bill nelson, his campaign, or his recount attorney mark elias, a longtime democratic operative. The future here is that sunday at noon up in tallahassee, of the secretary of states office, every county must have their updated numbers turned in. The secretary will forward that onto the state canvasing board which is planning on meeting first thing Tuesday Morning to certify floridas still going on 2018 election. Governor . Mike phil, thanks a bunch. Stay safe down there in florida. Were going to have more reaction to the ongoing recount in florida later in the show. But first, lets turn to major new developments out of the Mueller Probe. Could this. Seemingly endless investigation finally be coming to an end . Here with us for a full report, doug mckelway. Doug mckelway . Governor, good to see you. Further evidence that the Mueller Probe is about to be wrapped up is the president s comment today that he has finished answering written questions supplied by the special counsels office. I havent submitted them yet. Ive just finished them. As you know, ive been busy. It didnt take long to do them. And they were my answers. I dont need lawyers to do that. You need lawyers for submittal, to go over some of the answers, but theyre not very difficult questions. The president s comment that he hasnt submitted the answers yet is potentially significant. Trumps attorney said the president would not answer any questions from mueller on possible obstruction of justice. The remarks also come after mr. Trumps twitter storm yesterday in which he tore into muellers probe. They are screaming and shouting at people, threatening them to come up with the answers they want. There are a disgrace to our nation and dont care how many lives they ruin. In another tweet, the only collusion is that of democrats with russia and many others. Why didnt the fbi take the server from the dnc . They still dont have it. Google, and twitter are. In favor of the democrats. There is the real collusion. Roger stern and jerome corsi have both stated that they think they will be indicted. That and george papadopoulos, a former lowlevel Foreign Policy advisor, is asking a judge to stay his two week sentence before the Appeals Court rules whether the Mueller Probe is on unconstitutional. Report toos is to prison on november 26th. And separately, House Republicans who are about to bid fair well to their majority and all their investigations of mueller are making a lastditch effort to connect on a lameduck sessionefn hail mary. Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte that he will sipping a former fbi director james comey for a closeddoor deposition on november 29th and former attorney general Loretta Lynch on december 5th. The new Congress Looking for things to flood with the immigrants wrapping up investigations of trump. Adam schiff wants to examine whether mr. Trump laundered money for russia when he was a businessman. Governor, back to you. Mike thank you, doug. Joining us now with more, the author of the deep stayed close, Fox News Contributor jason chaffetz. The author of the russia hoax, one of my favorite books, by the way. Ho that is authored by fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett,nd along with Fox News Contributora tammy bruce and sara carter. Good to have all of you here. Sara, let me begin with you. The Mueller Investigation just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling. The president saysys hes got al those answers done and it was not hard at all. And the president also made it very clear, and according to sources, has made it clear for quite a long time there is nothing there. T they can investigate all they want, but there is absolutely no collusion with russia. Im willing to talk about this openly. And he has. And now hes answered these questions. And as far as obstruction and any kind of charges of obstruction, we know thats now been pushed aside by mueller. You cant charge the president with obstructing justice for firing comey. One, because Rod Rosenstein himself offered the memo to have them fired, and two, under article 2 of the constitution, the president can fire anybody wants. So at that point in time, i think this is what were looking at is muellers going to wrap up this probe. Were going to see this wrap up. Atswere going to see some peope possibly come under indictment. May be jerome corsi, may be rogerinan stone. And then we can all move on and were probably going to move on to the democrats now spending the next two years investigating more more investigations that will lead to nowhere. Mike gregg, you have talked extensivelyou about what you call a russia hoax. Whitaker now seems to be the new whipping boy because somehow the fact that he is in charge of the investigation means that itt suspect. Where does that go . Oh, it probablyly goes nowhe. Look, the office of Legal Counsel issued a 20page opinion. Co they are very independent. They said, hes perfectly entitled to have been appointed to the position. Under their recusal regulations, commenting about a case, it is not grounds for recusal. I think this continues whitaker is not going to interfere with mueller. Trumps not going to fire mueller, especially now since it appears to be reaching the very end. Le theres no reason to believe there was ever any evidence of collusion. Li and how do we know that . Because the top fbi lawyer, lisa page, in her deposition confessed. The entire time the fbi had the case, they never found any evidence of collusion. And thats significant because to have evidence in order to of a crime in order to appoint a specialn counsel. So that means the appointment of Robert Mueller was illegitimate. They never had any evidence. Mike well, one of the things though that this brings up, youve got senator jeff flake. He says hes not going to even allow judicial nominations to get to the floor and go through unless they let him have his little bill that would require a protection of the Mueller Probe. Theres no indication that anybodys pulling the plug on it. Congressman, let me ask you to weigh in on that. Why do we need to pass a bill to protect something that doesnt need to be protected by all indications . We dont. Fundamentally, we dont. I think its highly unconstitutional. You cannot tie the hands of a president who is empowered by the constitution. You cant say, mr. President , you cant fire this particular person. So, a, its unconstitutional. B, theres no evidence that donald trump is going to firens or dismiss this person. Hes been open, transparent, hes been answering their questions. Hes about to submit those questions. And i see no need for it. To hold up judicial appointments were something that is not going to happen anyway, unconstitutional and not necessary. Mike and, tammy, if nothing is found by mueller, how in the world does congress go anywhere with this . What is it theyre going g to investigate . If mueller comes up in a dry hole, no matter how deep hes drilled, what do they investigate and why . This entire investigation was a fraud. It was developed out of their own minds, perhaps from their own actions, of course. You always say, one of the leftist tactics is to accuse or opposition of what it is you ars doing. So i can imagine that theyll come up with something. And of course, itll be another fraud. All of this is posturing. Everything weve been discussing, including the jeff flake action, is really so they can say, well, heng was never fired because we stopped trump. All of these things are about emotions. Se its a fixation on the president. And its also to give the impression that the democrats are doing something because otherwise they might have to try to govern and come up with some ideas that would actually be good for the country and move us forward, but they cant do it. So this is, i think, what is important here. Also, the fact that the president has even had to write answers to questions that generated, as gregg noted, from an investigation that was illegitimate from the start, i that was meant to be exclusively political. And that report, governor, will go to congress, to the house, which then they will say or at least try to say that this is the basis for impeachment because theyll read into it whatever they want to. This is where the president ss Communication Team is key. Im sad that your daughter is going to be leaving the administration at the end of the year, but they need mike i dont know if she is. Ill have to ask her about that. Shesd not told me. Well, the intimation earlier this year that she was. I hope that thats incorrect. But the bottom line is theyre going to have a big job to do, to push back aggressively, which is not usually the republican skill of standing up for themselves. But going further and in fact pushing back on this entire fraud that has been perpetratedd on the American People to theat tune of millions of dollars and to the distraction of a man whos trying to save this country. Mike i want to go back to congressman chaffetz because one of the reports is that weve had occasion that adam schiff, one of, your former colleagues n the congress, has briefed some of the highdollar donors in the Democrat Party about the investigations. Is that ethical . Is itt appropriate . And if so, what would he have told them . I no, its not. Look, you can do fundraisers. You can go and talk to interest groups. An but if youre billed as im going to provide you information that nobody else can because im the incoming chairman of the intelligence committee, that is really highly suspicious and i think there needs to be more questions. One of the fundamental things thats different here is the democrats have signaled 86 different investigations, but they dont have the evidence first. Theyre presupposing the outcome, instead of following the evidence. Mike we have a couple of people here on the panel that i want to get back to, both sara and gregg. Sara, let me come back to you because this investigation, as you and gregg have both pointed out,in e has essential been a fe without fuel. How long must americans tolerate this . And do you see this ending before the end of the year . I think americans are ryextraordinarily frustrated. I think theyre angry about this. Thats what im hearing every day in emails. Ive got to tell you this. Where there waser fuel, it expod what happened with the fbi and with the doj. Deep malfeasance within the fbi and doj, which needs to be investigated. And lets not forget that inspectord general horowitz is still working on his report. It should be issued sometime next year. Its focusing solely on how the fbi handled this russia investigation. And every day we have more and more information about malfeasance. And if senator graham gets the chairmanship, he promises hell continue these investigations. But i think its going to go much further than this. I think were going to see some indictments. I think things will come to the surface within the doj. We still dont know what john huber has been investigating. I dont think its going to end here. I think is going to and for the president and the fact that hes going to be exonerated but i think its not going to and for the Hillary Clinton and the rest of them at the fbi. Mike the take away from your book that i remember, is that there was collusion, rsn bt wasnt from President Trump. It was Hillary Clinton and their organization. Its amazingly ironic. Hillary clinton paid for russian information that was then fed tr the fbi to damage her political opponent. And that was the pretext for the trumprussia investigation. And they took it a step further. They used that phony dossier they knew was fabricated from an unreliable, lying source and they deceived the fisa court judges, concealing evidence and essentially perpetrating a fraud on the court. That needs to be investigated. Mike hopefully it will be. I want to say thanks to all of you for being here and sharing perspectives. Coming up on this special edition of hannity, were going to have the very latest from the crisis at our southern border. William la jeunesse is going to join us from the border at tijuana, so stay with us. male speaker remember when christmas was magical . 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Joining me from tijuana with the latest on the status of the migrant caravan, wrote in our southern border, fox news correspondent william la jeunesse. William . Well, as long as the risk outweighs the reward, the administration believes this caravan will be followed by many more. Thats why theyre drawing a line in the sand here in tijuana. 2,000 people slept behind me. More are expected here tomorrow, potentially up to 5,000 people from caravan a. More caravans are already expected behind that. Now what are the options . People could go home. I havent heard anybody say that. They could stay here in mexico, raise money, hire a coyote, several said they would do that. They could apply for asylum in mexico. They could cross illegally, several told them they could do that, or they could claim asylum in the United States. Problem is you cant do it anymore between the borders. So right now the existing line is 1,040 people were told. Today the United States took 30 asylums claims to be heard by an asylum officer. Basically, the message of these people is, hey, get in line, take a number, it could take five weeks or several months. I want to just get my number. They let you they let me get give it to me. I dont know how long im going to wait for. So for many people, the reality is setting in. This could be a long haul. Now when they left the hunter is, the Administration Policy was catch and release. That changed when they reached mexico city. Theyre also seeing for the first time the fencing, the border security, the horses, the hot helicopters, the barbed wire on top of the fence, thats were amendable, giving some may be second thought. We preparing for a couple of weeks now. Weve searched and resources. The department of defense has been helping us harden the what that really means is building obstacles and making it harder to cross between the ports of entry. Because the shelter space here in tijuana is stressed, they stopped several buses about 60 to 80 miles east of where im at right now because they cant handle the capacity. I was also told informally that there may be a sitin along the 28 lanes of traffic that go from tijuana into the United States. That, of course, will bring traffic and commerce to a standstill. Nothings official here. Just something i heard from one of the guys. Theyre waiting until the rest of the caravan arrives to determine what to do next. Back to you, governor. Mike william la jeunesse, thank you very much. Democratic california senator Kamala Harris considered the top contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Made an utterly reckless statement yesterday. She suggested i. C. E. Was seen in a similar way to the ku klux klan. Watch her interaction with trumps nominee to be i. C. E. s next director. The klan was what we could call today a Domestic Terrorist Group. Why . Why would we call them at Domestic Terrorist Group . Because they tried to use fear and force to change political environment. And what was the motivation for the use of fear and force . It was based on race and ethnicity. Right. Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at i. C. E. Is being used to enforce the law . And do you see any parallels . I do not see any parallels between im talking about perception. I do not see a parallel. Mike all about perception. Perception. Not the facts, perception. Well, on this network today, former acting i. C. E. Director thomas homan had a few choice words for senator harris in response to her appalling comments. Take a look. For her to vilify the men and women, the 20,000 men and women that strap a gun to their hip every day to enforce a law that congress enacted shes a member of congress. If she dont like what i. C. E. Does, change the law. Or strap a gun on your hip and put a kevlar vest on and go arrest somebody that doesnt want to be arrested, thats a significant criminal alien that you let out of your sanctuary jail in california that you support with this actuary policies. Look, the men and women of i. C. E. Arent making this up. Theyre doing their job. They are protecting their homeland. Theyre enforcing the law that congress enacted. And to vilify and call them names is just ridiculous. Mike joining me now is morgan ortegas, lawrence jones, and from the center for immigration studies, jessica vaughan. Lawrence, im going to jump in here with you. Are you offended by senator harriss comments and her comparing i. C. E. Law enforcement officials, paid to the United States government to enforce a law, comparing them with the kkk . Yeah, i dont think its insulting to me but many of the people that fought during the civil rights movement, many people that fought to get three constitutional amendments so that black people to get the rights of other americans. Its offensive but again, this is the tone weve been seeing on the college campuses. Just as seattle university, we just reported on campus reform, they are disbanding their relationship with eyes, where students could get internship credits, all because of all the negative rhetoric thats been going on on these college campuses. These are people that are trying to keep us safe but the leftists of today, they dont care about any of that. They want to these political and emotional statements. But theres no Historical Context to support what theyre saying. Mike jessica, let me ask you if you think this is a little dangerous to try to tell people that a Law Enforcement agency is akin to a racist organization that lynched people and murdered them and denied people american citizens, their Constitutional Rights . Is that a dangerous thing to implant in the minds of impressionable College Students . Most definitely it is a dangerous thing because that undermines i. C. E. s ability to do its job. It empowers sanctuary policies to put the public at risk because they result in the release of criminal aliens back to the streets to keep preying on the community. And it makes it difficult for i. C. E. To do their job. It almost gives a license to challenge them when theyre going about, doing a job thats very important to americans that americans want to see done. Immigration laws are not some outdated, obsolete laws that dont deserve to be enforced anymore. They protect Job Opportunities for americans. They keep americans safe and protect taxpayers and they protect our Legal Immigration system. So this is very wrong to undermine this Important Agency and its work and the people who do it. Mike morgan, one of the things that we learned from william was that there is a mass of people assembling up at tijuana. And some people say, this isnt going to get here for weeks if not months. Well, theyre here. So that was an outright lie for some of the newscasters to say it had nothing to do with anything of current events. Well, its here. What should be the response of the president , homeland security, and for that matter, american citizens . So i think that we have to take a comprehensive, all of government approach to this. And a lot of o people are talking about the troops being on the border, but that is just one element of the National Security strategy that the president is trying to pursue. And i should say its important to note that this is a National Security strategy. By mattis going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. He said publicly, we dont do stones. So in one bucket you have our troops at the border meant there for a deterrence effect to say, dont come here, dont invade. You have to go through the proper channels. One of the biggest things is the fact that we have so many failed states in Central America and on our borders. And we have to look at radical new ideas for foreign aid because the foreign aid that we have sent, billions of dollars worth over decades, we havent looked at Central America closely, pretty much since the reagan administration. We have to look at what is our money going to there. Is there a new comprehensive ways to deal with the failed states . Can we take lessons from what our military and civilian services have done in iraq and afghanistan . And you have the military aspect of having that deterrence on the border. Mike and my heart is touched when i see children and i see desperate people who are immersed in the depths of poverty that its hard for us to even gets our arms around. But a lot of these people are not children and mothers. These are young men capable of doing jobs and theyre threatening that theyre going to come whether the law lets them or not. How do you separate that . What is the right response . A lot of us want comprehensive immigration laws. But there has to be a legal process. And with respect to those young men on the border, a lot of them have been fighting, journalists on the ground, but these are the same men that wont fight for their own country. I can only put myself in their position as an american. If my country was under siege and there was oppressive government going on, what would i do . I would fight for my country and fight my family. For some reason, they cant do that. Mike jessica, ill bring you back in. Do you think there is any hope that there will be a bipartisan solution that will be offered up, that will pass this divided congress that we are about to see . Well, its not going to be easy, but it has to happen because we cannot continue to have this influx over our southern border. It is hard to imagine what life is like for some of these people that must have made them decide to come here, but really the problem is our policy is enticing people to take this long trek, to put themselves in danger, to put their children in danger, to pay criminal smuggling organizations because they think they are going to be allowed in and theyre going to be able to get away with living here for the next few years. But its not fair to them. Its not fair to the American Communities that have to absorb these new populations. Congress needs to get something done here. It can no longer allow the courts to impose these restrictions on the executive branch, on how they handle an influx of families. Congress has got to get it done. Theres only so much President Trump can do on his own. Mike morgan, optimistic or pessimistic as to whether congress will actually do something . Youve lived in this town a long time. Youve been in the government. You know it well. Well, luckily i live in new york city. Im not sure thats any better. I will say i think your friend senator Lindsey Graham has proposed an interesting deal, which is trading daca for the border law. I think it will be difficult for the president to go into 2020 without building the wall. He does have some funding for it. I think a shortterm solution that senator graham proposed could be a winwin for the president. Mike lets hope it can be. Up next, Sarah Sanders is going to join us for a live oneonone interview with me. That ought to be fun. This special edition of hannity continues in a moment. To spellbinders, pathfinders, to grand plan designers. To historians, victorians, and all the targaryens. 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Mike that was President Trump during an interview that will air in full on Fox News Sunday with chris wallace. Cnn reporter jim acosta has regained access to the white house, but the administration is expected to address reporter conduct with new regulations. Joining us now as White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders, who i used all of my powers of persuasion to get her into the studio tonight. So one of the statements that came out of the white house today was a statement from you that indicated that there were rules being developed and a protocol being developed. When willl we expect to see what that looks like . Well, i think the biggest thing to take away is and the place that we focused on is exactly what the president said. We support a free press, but freedom of the press doesnt mean freedom to be disruptive, rude, interrupt, and impede the ability of the colleagues from actually being able to do their jobs, as well as white house staff from being able to do theirs. T weve laid out in a letter to cnn and their team what we think were some of the missteps that their reporter made at the press conference on november 7th in a letter that we sent themco tonight. And we expect to see a s respone from that. The judge i think was actually very clear that the white house has the ability to say, you cant come in. You dont have freedom of te press doesnt mean freedom to the white house. And he said there has to be due process. Thats what were doing and well see what happens from there. Mike the judges ruling was not a First Amendment ruling, it was a fifth amendment ruling. He neverer said that cnn had ben denied their First Amendment rights, because obviously they can say whatever they want. The government, including f the white house, has never said, heres what you cant say. They also have a 50plus additional people that are t had pass holders at cnn. They actually are one of the individual outlets that has the most hard passes of any news outlet n in the country is cnn. Theyre one of the top three. So the idea that they arent able to get information they need from the white house is franklylaughable. Mike let me ask you some process questions. How many seats are in the press room . 49 seats. Mike 49 seats. There are thousands of journalists across america. Who gets to decide whose rear ends occupy 49 seats and howet come they get them and thousandd of others never, ever get to darken the door of that place . We work with the White House Correspondents Association. They are the primary people who help determine who those seats belong to. Mike do they get to pick them or can you say, okay, on this next thursday were going to have journalists from country except washington . That tradition has been in the past that the White House Correspondents Association determines who sits in the room. Mike thats tradition, its not law. True. Mike if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see the same folks in there and say, how come they get to do it . Im sure theres broadcasters and print reporters all across the country who would love t to ask the president questions and probably wouldnt talk at him and ask him to t stop. I think thats certainly an option to explore and maybe we will in this white house. I know the president is one of the most accessible president s probably ever, but certainly in modern history. Hes taken, in the last six weeks, leading up to the midterms, he took 300 times the number of questions from reporters than either of his predecessors. Thats outrageous to pretend he doesnt support the press. Doesnt support. Above the president hasnt given unprecedented access to those reporters. Hes somebody who loves to engage with the press. Mike weve noticed that. We have. And thats because he loves to be ablet to speak directly o the American People. We never want to prohibit that from taking place, but at the same time, those individuals cant be disruptive. They cant impede the ability of any individual to do their jobs. Mike so when might we see the rules or the requirements, the protocol . Youve said you sent the letter to cnn tonight. Is that going to be in a few days, few weeks . Well work with our team on that and certainly moving into thanksgiving holiday, well see how long that process takes, but i think thereng are some just standard practices. Look, i think the very basic minimum is that if certain reporters like jim acosta cant be adults, then cnn needs to send somebody in there who can be. Mike if he asked threeee questions when he was only supposed to ask one, does that make the other reporters ticked off . He got more of the candy out with the bold and they were able tota get. I want to speak for the other reporters, ill leave that to them. But certainlyhe privately a numr of them have expressed their displeasure with the fact of his grandstanding and the position that he often puts a lot of them in. And its certainly not something they want to celebrate nor defend. Mike i dont want to belabor it. Lets move to tomorrow. Youll be looking at horrific scenes, worst fires in the history of the country. 63 known dead, 600 unaccounted for. What will the president hope to say tomorrow . I think the simplest message is that were here. Were there for you. We will do any and everything we can to provide federal assistance and federal resources. He conveyed that, i know, in a call to Governor Brown earlier this week. Hell be joining us when we get to california tomorrow. I think this will actuallyk probably be one of the harder days that weve had in the two years of this administration, not only visiting with the horrific and seeing the scenes of the horrific wildfires that have ravaged california, but also talking with some of the people and the families that were impacted by the shooting there not too long ago. Its going to be a very difficult and emotional day, and i think the biggest takeaway will be the president saying, were here. And thankfully the president s got Big Shoulders and i think hes going toan go there to offr them up to people that need them. P mike the president had a big moment this week on prison sentencing reform. Weve only got a minute and a half left, but i want to cover lfthis because i didnt see a lt in the mainstream media. It was a good story. Mike it was a great story. Bipartisan. You had people that really ranged the full spectrum. From the far left for the far right, everyone in between, on a personal level. I was involved in this. One of the committees to help trap some of the policy based on my own experiences. This was huge. This was major. Give me a synopsis of what this legislation does that the president pushed this week. Well, i think one of thehe biggest things is it brings the country together. Its a bipartisan, an area where republicans, democrats, everyone can come together and agree that this is a good thing to show a little grace and a little mercy in our justice system. Something that hasnt been done in a long time. T weve had decades worth of bad decisions that have been improperly placed people and really, i think, longer sentences than they deserved, not allowed people to have a life after prison. And this is something that is very important to the president , very importantnt to jared kushn, whos done a tremendous job in helping develop and really work this. This isnt something that happened overnight. Its been a year and a half long process. I think you saw a little bit of the culmination ofof that. E mike he should get the credit for that and i hope he will. 30 seconds and thats all weve got. Earlier tammy bruce said Sarah Sanders is going to be leaving the white house. I didnt know it, either. [laughs] mike is there something you need to tell your dad . I hope not, not that im aware of, no. Mike and i told her, i said, well, gee, maybe you know something i dont know. Im just a dad, how would i know these things . I think it is one of the greatest privileges and certainly one ofni the greatest opportunities of my life to serve in this administration, to work with President Trump and the successes that hes had in the first two years. I thinkk hes going to have a lt more over the next six. Mike will there be other people, though, that will transition out . Will there be a huge amount of people . Every administration has turnover particularly after the midterms. Hest people dont have the stamina the president does. I often say, i dont know how hes not tired because the rest of us certainly are. And thats not new for any administration that youll have some people that will change over. But at the same time, the president s got an incredibly dedicated team that wants to continue to see the country move forward and we want to see you the under President Trump. Mike if you are going to do it, would you let me know and dont let me read it in the paper . Im i think its fake news. Sarah, thank you for coming in. Not that you had a choice, butut thank you for being here. Next in this special edition of hannity beyond the midterms b were going to go to a place where the midterms just will not ted. And of course im talking about florida. The best analysis in the businessot is straight ahead. Just one free hearing test at his local miracle ear helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. Just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh. And less of the background noise around him. 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Joining us to talk about the fallout from the midterm elections, florida congressman matt gaetz, former federal attorney emily compagno, and Palm Beach County Republican Party chairman michael barnett. Congressman gaetz, you have been right in the middle of all of this down inte florida. So m let me start with you. Are we going to bring a resolution to this . Will we end up with the same results that we had an Election Night, tuesday, november the sixth . Well, we will for Governor Scott and ron desantis. The joke in florida is you cant spell gillum without two ls. He lost an Election Night and he lost in the recount as well. Unfortunately he hasnt conceded so that so we can move on. Im proud of desantis for having invited to meet with gillum and hear his thoughts. I think its appropriate to have two folks that have had a tough competition to comepp together d ogchat and move together in the direction that is best for those that so we continue to see these we hope to serve. Problems in florida. Were going to have to have some systemic reform. My hope is this isnt the newoi incarnation of the resist movement. First they resisted republican policies, now they are actually trying to resist the will of the voters. Thats not a good thing for anybody. Mike emily, let me ask you, the democrats have a fundamental problem and is accepting Election Results . Whether itsn 2016 president ial election, whether this elections that came out of georgia. The republicans didnt throw a fit in arizona. They didnt like the results there, but they sucked it up. Okay, Kyrsten Sinema is the new cemetery. What is it with democrats that let that happen . Youre right. And, yes, certainly mcsally had a graceful defeat and message. I dont know the answer to that, but i will say this, that theres certainly a pattern of such. And in the case of Broward County, there was an actual legal pattern and legal history of that county election supervisor being in court multiple times and ruled against, including injunctions. V destroying ballots early, she was ruled to have violated state and federal law as well as destroying ballots early, opening them for terminally, and changing entire amendments. And what was the remedy . We saw a machine over sight. This time around the argument to being two minutes late was the website created a separate issue and im pleased with what i did with the amount of time i had. Since when is that incompetence accepted and defended . Shes still remaining in that seat, still defending against those losses and reducing it to a singular issue of race. Certainly as well in georgia, the history there, the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that they didnt have to oversee r that internally the instateov voter election laws. The issues here were those arguing that kemp stole the seelection, quote unquote. The issues had to do with implementation and execution, not the constitutionality of the instate laws themselves. Its bogus all the way around in such a hyperbole to put that on these candidates when clearly the voters have spoken. Mike michael, you are right in the middle of Palm Beach County, youve seen a lot of these election issues. I think what a lot of americans look at is that it seems like the rest of florida can handle an election, even parts of florida that have had a hurricane, for heavens sake. But there are two counties in the southern part of the state that cant get it right. Whats going on down there . Your best guess is as good as ours. Ow paul meade county and Broward County have been the center of political chaos and incompetence for years, going back to the 2000 election. One thing to note about the Broward County supervisor who submitted their second unofficial count to the state that was two minutes late, rick scott wass ahead in Broward County. That would have cushioned his statewide lead by several hundred votes. It makes you wonder if that mistake was really a mistake. In Palm Beach County, we see and different story. Republicans or democrats, the supervisors, they are working together. They are monitoring the race. Weve seen a much more orderly and cordial and friendly atmosphere. But if bill nelson is looking for a miracle out of south florida, he can forget it. The final numbers submitted by Palm Beach County only added about 118 votes to nelson. Fl its time to concede. His tenure in congress and in the senate has to come to an end. He needs to do what Stacey Abrams did. Follow suit and bow out gracefully. This race is over. Mike lets hope it is because it seems like its just going and going. And the rest of america is gone. 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My new book came out just this week. Its available at bookstores and online book sellers in time for christmas. I hope you will catch my show on tbn saturday and sunday night from nashville. Unfortunately thats all the time weve got this evening. Have a great weekend because the ingraham angle is next. And you do not want to miss a second of it. Good night. Laura im Laura Ingraham and this is the the ingraham angle from washington tonight. A Big Friday Show for you of course. In moments, were going to speak with former speaker Newt Gingrich about a stunning nonconcession in that georgia gubernatorial election. And a promised federal lawsuit by the democrat Stacey Abrams. This after she slowly comes to the conclusion shes not going to be the next governor of georgia. Plus were going to bring you a report that the rest of the media would rather ignore, a shocking story about whats really happening to women and